Outside magazine, March 1995 Big Weather The Ice Storm The picturesque has become terror, whole forests collapsing at once. Lessness rules. By Barry Hannah The Gale Forty-knot winds. Fifty-foot seas. And a ship that suddenly seems like a shanty. By Robert Stone…

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